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A. w. TURTON. JEWELRY HOLDER. No. 511,223. Patented Dec. 19, 18-93.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT W. TURTON, OF NEWVARK, NElV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THE RICHARDSON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW JERSEY.

JEWELRY-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 511,223, dated December 19, 1893.

Application filed October 21, 1893. Serial No. 488,773 (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT .W. TURTON, a subject of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Jewelry; and I do hereby declare the following to bee full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a hair or other form of pin with an interchangeable head or ornament, to enable an ordinary breast pin or brooch to be employed in connection with said pin,to fasten said head or brooch upon said pin with greater security and firmness and to secure other advantages and results some of which will be referred to in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the pin having the improved brooch-clamp, and in the arrangem cuts and combinations of parts, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth and finally embodied in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings in which like letters indicate corresponding parts in each of the views, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a pin with two prongs. Fig. 2 is a section of the same taken on line as. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation, showing a brooch or breast pin secured to said pin but removable therefrom, and Fig. 4: shows the invention applied to a single pronged pin.

In said drawings, a indicates a hair, hat or similar pin, having one, two or more prongs at the head or end opposite the point of which is fastened by soldering or otherwise, or integrally formed therewith, a screwshank, b. In two pronged pins, this may be secured atthe center of a recess, b, formed at the upper side of the cross-connection, 0,, of the prongs, the recess serving as a receptacle for the nut and the curved cross connection as an ornamental member of the design. At the upper end of the screw shank, the same is provided with a tubular cross head, cl, the longitudinal passage, d',in which isadapted to receive and hpld the pin, g, of the brooch f, Fig. 3. Said cross-head, may be soldered to the screw orotherwise fixed thereto. On the side next adjacent to the shank, the cross head is perforated on opposite sides of said shank as indicated at c, e, the perforations entering through into the longitudinal pin passage (1'. 'Below said cross-head, upon the screw-shank is a finger nut c, the upper end of which is centrally open to allow the opposite edges, 0, to enter through said perforations, as the nut is screwed upward, and enter into binding or clamping contact 55 with the brooch pin, 9, at two points thereon so that the brooch is held with great firmness and lateral play or pivotal vibration, such as would ordinarily be allowed by a single contact, is prevented.

. 7c Having thus described the 1nvention,what

'I claim as new is- 1. The combination with the pin a, shank b, and cross head providing a passage for the brooch pin, of a nut arranged on saidshank and adapted to clamp the said brooch pin at twopoints, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination with the pin a, shank b, and tubular and perforated cross-head, a nut, 0, arranged on said shank, and adapted to clamp the brooch pin, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with the pin a,screwshank b,tubular head cZ,secured at the end of the screw-shank opposite the connection of said pin and shank and a nut, o, the opposite edges of which are adapted to engage the pin.

g, at two points thereon, on opposite sides of the shank h, substantially as set forth. o

4. In combination, a pin Ct, shank b, not 0, and head d, arranged to engage a brooch pin and hold the same thereto, substantially as set forth.

Intestimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of October, 1893.

ALBERT w. TURTON.

NVitnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, OLIVER DRAKE. 

